Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France by Satish Padiyar

Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France

Satish Padiyar

225 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous reflective medium-paced
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One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae, hangs today in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, Chains embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body,...

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